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Cicely Hamilton How the Vote Was Won (1909)

Cicely Hamilton ( )

1832 First Reform Act 1860 Suffrage societies formed The campaign for women’s suffrage

John Stuart Mill ( )

1867 Second Reform Act 1870 Married Women’s Property Act

First women admitted to Cambridge University (1871) Newnham began in a house for five students in Regent Street, Cambridge. Lectures for Ladies had been started and such was the demand from those who could not travel in and out on a daily basis, that the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, one of the organisers of the lectures, risked renting a house in which young women attending the lectures could reside. He persuaded Anne Jemima Clough, who had previously run a school in the Lake District, to take charge of this house.

1882 Married Women’s Property Act Third Reform Act The fin-de-siècle The ‘womanly woman’ vs. the ‘New woman’

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) (1897) Dame Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) ( ), suffragist and educational reformer who led the women’s suffrage movement for over five decades. A founder of Newnham College, Cambridge SUFFRAGISTS

The International Women’s Suffrage Alliance was founded at the initiative of Carrie Chapman Catt ( ), president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. By the end of 1920 it had affiliated societies in 30 countries throughout the world, with its headquarters in London. The aim of the Alliance was to aid the enfranchisement of the women of all nations through the international co-operation of the national societies International Women’s Suffrage Alliance (1902)

Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) (1903) Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst SUFFRAGETTES

Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst by the Houses of Parliament, London

(Left) Artists’ Suffrage League (1907) (Right) A march of The Actresses' Franchise League (created in 1908) at Hyde Park Corner, London (ca.1913) s.ac.uk

Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage (1907)

Women Writers’ Suffrage League (1908) In 1908 two members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton, formed the Women Writers’ Suffrage League (WWSL). The WWSL stated that its object was "to obtain the vote for women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men. Its methods are those proper to writers - the use of the pen”.

First World War 1918 Women Suffrage Act 1928 All women over 21 given vote

Some suffrage plays Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins, Alan’s Wife (1893) Elizabeth Robins (left), Votes for Women (1907) Inez Bensusan, The Apple (1909) Beatrice Harraden, Lady Geraldine’s Speech (1909) Bessie Hatton, Before Sunrise (1909) Gertrude Jennings, A Woman’s Influence (1909) Elizabeth Baker, Chains (1909), Miss Tassey (1910), Edith (1912), Partnership (1917).

Some suffrage plays Maud Arncliffe-Sennet, An Englishwoman’s Home (1910) H.M.Paull, The Anti-Suffragist (1910) Vera Wentworth, An Allegory (1911) Evelyn Glover, A Chat with Mrs Chiky (1912) Miss Appleyard’s Awakening (1912) Githa Sowerby, Rutherford and Son (1912) Francis Sheehy Skeffington (right), The Prodigal Daughter (1914)

Some of Cicely Hamilton’s works The Sixth Commandment (1906) Diana of Dobson’s (1908) Marriage as a Trade, How the Vote Was Won and A Pageant of Great Women (1909) Just to Get Married and The Homecoming (1910) A Matter of Money (1911)

Some of Cicely Hamilton’s works Phyl (1913) First war novel:William, the Englishman (1919) Second war novel: Theodore Savage (1922) The Old Adam (1926) Full Stop (1931) Autobiography: Life Errant (1935) Essay: Lament for Democracy (1940)

How the Vote Was Won (1909)

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